The unemployment rate on the Central Coast saw a dramatic shift year-over-year for the month of June, with the jobless rate going up in each of the tri-counties, according to the latest data provided ...

First things first. Ventura and Santa Barbara counties will recover from the damage done by the early July ICE raids on cannabis farms in Camarillo and Carpinteria. It will not be easy. Hundreds of ...

It has been easy to overlook the quiet rise of Sue Andrzejewski, Dean of the Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics at CSU Channel Islands. But Andrzejewski has taken big steps in her career ...

An exam room at the Cottage Health urgent care clinic in Oxnard. (File photo) Two nonprofit Central Coast healthcare providers have received honors recognizing their high standard of care. Cottage ...

Dignity Health added its second da Vinci 5 surgical robot recently. (courtesy photo) Santa Maria-based Marian Regional Medical Center, which is under the Dignity Health umbrella, has acquired its ...

By Darrin Gauvin Bank of America The Tri-counties are home to major military bases — land, sea, and air — that bring a significant number of active-duty military to reside here. Having banked both the ...

Doug Sylvester, one of the directors of the JetStream Fund, speaking at the Camarillo event on July 16, 2025. (courtesy photo) Business professionals and leaders who have wanted to invest in local, ...

Upwards of 30,000 people on the Central Coast could lose their health insurance due to $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid under President Donald Trump’s spending and tax bill, regional health care and ...

Prosecuting white-collar crimes is a priority for Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko. As is, of course, prosecuting violent offenses. Nasarenko sees similarities between the two. “Whether ...

Jill Sharkey, a Professor of School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara, has been appointed Interim Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang made the announcement on ...

Santa Barbara-based HG Insights released its annual IT Spent Report on July 10 and highlighted that external IT spending is expected to approach $5 trillion for the first time. In the third annual ...

Thousand Oaks-based Atara Biotherapeutics is putting the fate of its lead treatment back into the hands of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after resubmitting its application on July 11.